If I can vote in a local election, can I also run for a local office?  In my county, the requirements for voting and for running for office are exactly the same (U.S. citizen, 18 years of age and 6 month residency).  Anybody have a problem with non-citizen candidates?

And therefore, I can run for local office?

I wonder if he knows NJ was just named the 5th worst state for conducting business according to CEOs.  I think the governor has jumped the shark and left the building.  His 15 minutes are up.

Okay, let's see if I understand.  We should look the other way because this time it is our best candidate that might have a problem with eligibility.   

But, ethically, the end never justifies the means.  

So, it's not really, really dumb.  It's just really, really principled.

You misrepresented your own citation...it says "that the child of CITIZENS," ...you need TWO of those citizens.

To understand the Constitution, you have to understand INTENT.  The Founders were very rational human beings.  They were establishing a new nation.  Wouldn't they want a President who was undeniably loyal to only one nation...the new one they had just fought to establish?    

"... children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parents (sic) who has met U.S. residency requirements," the CRS's Jack Maskell wrote."

I hate to bring this up but I can't let it stand without comment.  Maskell mentions above that when only one parent is a U.S. citizen, that parent must meet residency requirements.  If Obama was NOT born in Hawaii, Stanley Dunham, being so young, did not live in the U.S. long enough to meet those residency requirements and thus, could not pass citizenship to her son.  Hairsplitting?  Perhaps.  But, if you are going to hang everything on these legal qualifications to determine citizenship, you can't disregard the inconvenient ones.  

I still think the Founders, in choosing "natural-born" wording to limit only presidential candidates, not congressmen or senators, intended a much narrower construction.

And for those of you who keep putting Rubio on the 2016 ticket...check his citizenship status.

When GayFreedomLover asked me:

"Were you a homosexual?  And are you better now?"

I assumed, as a committed gay person, he was being facetious.  Is that not snarky?

And, I was not trying to start trouble...it IS trendy in many circles to have a gay child or friend. Discovering an unwed teenage mother in the family rarely is cause for a celebration.

Oh, no, nothing so trendy.  I was  pregnant.

I'm not Skyler but I can satisfy your curiosity.  I was shunned at 18 by my parents for violating their principles.  I left home with $63.00 in my pocket and a valuable life lesson.  Like Skyler and my parents, I believe that you don't have to accept the choices other people make, even if those people are your offspring.

The final chapter:  my parents are in their 90's and still second-guessing whether or not they did the right thing.  I assure them that they did.

I have tried so hard to understand Islam...I chip away at the Koran, the Sirah and the Hadith to no avail.  I have talked at length with two female Muslims...an Afghani living in NY and an Egyptian friend living in London.  Nothing made sense until I discovered Bill Warner.  He has a long video called "Why We Are Afraid: 1499 Years of History".  But, this short interview

http://youtu.be/x0W0yqfdg54

is so clear and so simple.  I had been trying to understand Islam as a religion.  But, Islam is primarily a political system and it is spread by force, not persuasion.  Some of the harshest tenets of Islam, like taqqiya, the killing of apostates and infidels, the taxing of dhimmis all make sense in a political system.  And, conversely, none of them make sense as religious practices.  

Maybe journalists would be more comfortable calling out Islamic terrorists if they understood them to be politically-motivated.  

The team of SFC Timothy Briggs & SFC Raymond Santiago won the 30th "Best Ranger" Competition at Fort Benning, GA. On Monday, General Colin Powell (flown in on the private jet of a Ranger supporter) spoke at the awards ceremony.  I spent 4 days surrounded by honorable, smart and strong men.  Just the vaccine I needed to survive the news this week.  Watch the YTube videos and see why their motto is "Rangers lead the way."

Judith, thanks for the photo...brings back great memories for me of that first morning of grandmotherhood.  Obviously, some people cannot simply take delight in seeing ANY family celebrate such a marvelous event.  Nevermind...I loved it.

Standing with Rand...though Benjamin Carson is intriguing.

Oh Mama Toad...how true!  

For you youngish mothers who are paralyzed in dealing with young adult children...

My parents threw me out when I announced at 19 that I was pregnant and unmarried.  I understood their outrage the day it happened and today, 42 years later, I often console my 87 year old mother when she tears up over the memory.  I firmly believe my parents were right in their principles; I was wrong.  I knew it then, I know it now.

Lesson: My parents went on to raise my 7 younger siblings with a much looser hand.  None of them loves or respects my folks as I do.  

Own your principles.

Oh, Molly, what a girl!

My son's ex-girlfriend won a $500 football pool one year by picking her teams according to who, in her opinion, had the best uniform colors.  She'd have been fine if she had just kept her mouth shut but she bragged about her technique to the 30+ men in the pool.   Can you guess why she is an ex-girlfriend?

Edward Smith: "But I refuse to get too excited about him.....Because it is still too early in the season."

It must be a guy thing.  

When I find someone articulate, intelligent and CONSERVATIVE who is willing to constantly remind the riffraff in DC about their oath to defend the Constitution, I'm all in.  

I Stand with Rand!